States and conditions
Synonyms for nerves
The synonym for nerves recorded in this bank is nervousness, in the sense "an uneasy psychological state". Below it sits the sentence that fixes that meaning, the same sentence with the swap made, and the words that only look close.
The synonym for nerves
- nervousnessnoun, in the sense "an uneasy psychological state"
A single pair, which is what a single sense earns. Words further down the page are near misses and are not synonyms for nerves.
an uneasy psychological state
He suffered an attack of nerves.
The true synonym
nervousness
Same sentence, swapped: He suffered an attack of nervousness.
Close but different
Wrong tiles, chosen to be tempting rather than absurd. The reason line above takes the nearest one apart; the rest fail the same sentence for their own reasons.
- trauma
- depression
- panic
Where nerves turns up in the game
nerves is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 3, Ridgeline. It is never used as a wrong tile elsewhere in the bank, so every board it appears on is a board it can win.
Play nerves
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so nerves reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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Closest first: other states and conditions words at Ridgeline, then the same tier across the rest of the library.
Why the near miss missed, in the game as well as here
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. nerves carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.